| Description |
xvii, 617 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 573-586) and index. |
| Contents |
Mabel Dodge's salon : "oh, how we were all intertwined!" -- Max Eastman and The masses : "just-before-dawn of a new day" -- Jig Cook, Eugene O'Neill, and the Provincetown players : "the beloved community of life-givers" -- The feminists of the village : meetings with remarkable women -- Edna St. Vincent Millay : "a lovely light" -- Eminent villagers -- William Carlos Williams, the little magazines, and the poetry wars -- Hart Crane : the roaring boy of the village -- Maxwell Bodenheim : "poems twenty-five cents each" -- Thomas Wolfe and Aline Bernstein : "the knife of love" -- Joe Gould : the last of the last bohemians -- Djuna Barnes : "one's life is peculiarly one's own when one has invented it" -- E.E. Cummings and Dylan Thomas : the village as sanctuary, the village as stage -- Delmore Schwartz : alien in residence -- Dawn Powell : the village as an idea of itself -- Jackson Pollock and the abstract expressionists in the village : rearranging the stars. |
| Summary |
Chronicles the New York City neighborhood's role as a bohemian enclave that became the home of and transformed the lives of individuals who came to the neighborhood to pursue their individual artistic, personal, and political dreams. |
| Subject |
Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century.
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New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951.
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Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
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Intellectuals -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
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Artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
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Bohemianism -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
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| ISBN |
0684869950 |
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9780684869957 |
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0684869969 |
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9780684869964 |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 242475574 |
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YDXCP 1780669 |
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NZ1 6295284 |
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AU@ 000022714440 |
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